Anand Ramanathan Author & Editor

Prof. Meera Sheriffa Begum K.M graduated from Anna University, Chennai. She has got industrial experience at "Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd" (Formerly Madras Refineries Ltd) at R&D division as "MRL Research Fellow" from 1991-95. She is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. She has received many best paper awards in international conferences, granted two patents, more than 100 publications in renowned international journals (h-index: 28; i-index: 49; citations 2550). Her research interests lay in the fields of, Separation Processes, Functional materials for Water treatment, Alternate fuels and Medical applications. She has authored three Chemical Engineering text books as "Process Calculations, Elements of Mass Transfer (Part I) and Mass Transfer theory and Practice" and co-authored a book on "A Thermo economic Approach to Energy from Waste". She has authored seven book chapters as well. Under her supervision, she has guided several PhD scholars, postgraduate and undergraduate scholars. She has contributed research, sponsored and consultancy projects on Sustainable Functional materials towards environment and energy applications funded by MHRD, DST-SERB, CSIR, MHRD-SPARC and DST-BRICS. She has undertaken research collaboration and training at NUS, Singapore through TEQIP in 2006 and has involved herself in consultancy projects on down streaming applications in Distilleries, Dairy industries, Southern Railways etc., professionally related activities and administrative responsibilities to serve the community.

Prof. Anand Ramanathan is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean (Research & Consultancy)-Industry & Outreach at National Institute of Technology, Trichy. He is a recipient of the Australian Endeavour Fellow and worked in the area of solar fuels at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in 2015. He also serves as the Expert Member of the Centre of Excellence in Corrosion and in Corrosion and Surface Engineering. As a recognition of his contributions, he was awarded N.K.Iyengar Memorial Prize in 2009, Outstanding scientist VIRA Award in 2017, and Dr. Radhakrishnan Award in 2018. His area of specialization is Internal Combustion Engines, and it expands to the field of Alternative Fuels, waste to energy conversion technologies, Emission Control, and Fuel cells. He has guided six PhD and three MS research scholars and is currently guiding eight Ph.D. and one MS scholar. His research-oriented scholarship has facilitated him to publish more than 53 Science Citation SCI /Scopus Indexed research journals and presented papers in several international conferences besides presenting a paper in Applied Energy (ICAE2018 – Hong Kong), ASME, USA and SAE International conferences at Detroit, USA. Granted four Indian patents in the area of biocatalyst and biofuel. Visited Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, France, the USA, and Bangladesh for academic collaborations. Authored three books and 11 book chapters in renowned publications. Received sponsored projects from IEI-India, DST-SERB, DST-YSS, DST-UKERI, DRDO-GTRE, MHRD-SPARC, and DST-BRICS and developed well equipped Fuels Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NIT-Trichy. Undertaken Consultancy for Industry and Administrative responsibilities at NITT.

Prof. Amaro Olimpio Pereira Junior is an Economist, Ph.D. in Energy Planning from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He worked as technical advisor of the Energy and Environment Department at Energy Research Company (EPE), in Brazil; Visiting Professor at University Pierre Mendès-France in Grenoble, France and at University of Texas at Austin, Texas. Worked as Research Fellow at CIRED (Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environement et Dévélopement), in France. Currently, Associated Professor of the Energy Planning Program of the Institute of Graduate Studies in Engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPE/COPPE/UFRJ), Researcher at Centro-Clima, Director of the Institute for Strategic Development of the Energy Sector – ILUMINA and Member of the permanent technical committee at LIFE. He has experience in energy and environmental modelling, besides working in the areas of regulation of energy sectors, integration of new technologies and different energy sources on issues related to climate change. He is author of books, book chapters and several papers in international journals.

Prof. Dmitrii Glushkov is a PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and Associate professor of the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia has 11 years of research and teaching experience. Specialist in combustion theory. Fields of research: combustion processes of composite solid propellants and gel fuels, co-combustion of solid fossil fuels and municipal solid waste; micro-explosion of composite fuels, hot spot ignition. Dr. D. Glushkov is the head of more than 10 major research projects. The main scientific results of over the past five years have been published in more than 25 highly rated journals and three monographs.

Prof. M. Angkayarkan Vinayakaselvi, Associate Professor of English, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli–620024 has 22 years of teaching experience including her service at University of Madras, Chennai and Mother Teresa Women’s University. She has worn the Travel Grant Award to Present Paper in North East Modern Language Association, USA. She authored a book and research articles and won Best Presentation and Best Paper Awards. Currently, she is specializing in Environmental Humanities.